Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

Providing nursing care within an MDT. Provision of national screening and immunisation programmes, eg cervical cytology, vaccinations and sexual health screening. We provide contraception and sexual health services, as well as travel health promotion and immunisation. We also run treatment room sessions in our clinics.

I work 9-5, which is a rarity in nursing. I have a morning and an afternoon clinic. I see patients within my clinic slots, then have an hour a day to complete my admin duties. Sometimes we deliver health promotion talks within the university, and visit new parents at home when they've had their baby. Some of our nurses are specialists in sexual health, asthma, eating disorders, and travel health.

I enjoy working with my nursing team. The wider team is an MDT, and the diversity is really good for enabling good patient care, and reflecting on practice.

Keeping to the time slots is sometimes tricky. We get 10 mins per patient typically. This is pretty standard in primary care. Some procedures such a smears and asthma are allocated longer.

The range of family medicine, health promotion and public health was appealing. I am also studying a PGT Master of Public Health at ScHARR alongside my nursing job, and my flexible part time hours work well for me.

Communications skills are used utmost, then obviously my learned nursing skills. To be a practice nurse you need to be a qualified and registered nurse first. I worked as a Band 5 Nurse while I completed my preceptorship in primary care, and now I work at Band 6. The training never stops though, and you can be as busy with training as you choose to be. Its about career-long learning and development.

I worked as a practice nurse in primary care in the year between finishing my PGDip in Nursing and beginning my Masters degree in Public Health at ScHARR. I am again working as a practice nurse, but part time while I finish my MPH.

I aim to work in Public Health - possibly planning and policy when I finish my MPH. The options are quite varied - local authority, PHE, NHS Trusts, charity sector. There is a strong emphasis on industry links and transferability of skills within the various modules.

There is lots of scope to work in population-level health as a nurse. The burden of ill health increases all the time and there is growing opportunity to utilise my nursing skills in multidisciplinary roles within public health. My nursing has given me an excellent start in public health and I have a true appreciation of good health because I am a clinician first.